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Author:   Nikolai S. Rozov
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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9783032064653

ISBN 10:   3032064651
Pages:   588
Publication Date:   30 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Logic of Approach, Levels, and Magic Wands of Evolution.- Basic Concepts and Evolutionary Principles for Theorizing Anthropogenesis.- Drivers and Mechanisms of Development.- Microsocial and Mental Processes of Sapientation.- Stages of Anthropogenesis.- Why Africa?.- Straight, Naked Body, Long Hair and Beards.- Socio-Evolutionary Drivers of Morphological Transformations.-  Human Sexuality: Comparison with Primates, Multilayeredness, and Oddities.- The Nature of Sexual Machinery and the Origins of Gender Disharmony.- Eyes and Facial Expressions: Wordless Means of Communication.- Crying, Tears, Depression: Origins and Factors of Persistence.- Why We Laugh.- Adolescence, Libido, Menopause: Puzzles of Sexual Developmental Dyschrony and Dimorphism.- The African Springboard to Final Sapientation and Species Unity.- Male and Female Eroticism: Why We Are So Different.- Upper Paleolithic: Causes of the Middle Sapiens Revolution.- From Wandering Groups to Barbarian Chiefdoms: Settlement, The Neolithic, Violence, And Ethnicity.- Causes of the Emergence of Speech, Consciousness, and the the Self-Structure.- Multifaceted Humor: Origins and Evolutionary Role.- Human Nature: Multilayers and Openness.- In Lieu of a Conclusion. What We Have Come to and What Lies Ahead: Traps, Illusions, Challenges, Lessons, and Hopes.

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Nikolai S. Rozov is Leading Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Law, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, located in Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, Russia. His research spans the philosophy of history, humanistic ethics, macrosociology, the theory of revolutions, anthropogenesis, and early cultural evolution. In 1995, he interned at the Fernand Braudel Center under the mentorship of I. Wallerstein. For several years, he coordinated the ""Macrohistorical Dynamics"" network at the Social Science History Association (SSHA). Rozov is Author of 10 monographs and over 415 research papers. Additionally, he compiled the translated almanac ""The World Time"" and the book series ""Theoretical History and Macrosociology.""

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